KASE DETERMINED THE REPRESENTATIVE LIST FOR CALCULATION OF KASE INDEX AS OF MAY 1, 2008

15.04.08 20:14
/KASE, April 15, 08/ -By decision of Risk committee of Kazakhstan stock exchange JSC (KASE) dated April 14, 2008 in accordance to the internal document of KASE "Methods of calculation of stock market indicators" (http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/indicators_met.pdf , hereafter - the Methods) the new representative list of shares was determined for calculation of KASE index. Since May 1, 2008 common shares(GB_KZMS, GB00B0HZPV38) of KAZAKHMYS PLC (United Kingdom) will be included into this list. Despite the insignificant differences in liquidity parameters of these shares from requirements of point 2 article 7 of the Methods, members of Risk committee agreed to include GB_KZMS into the portfolio of KASE index with aims of increase of the representative characteristic of indicator, approaching of the files structure of its representative list to the structure of Kazakhstan economy, and also in the reasonable expectation of GB_KZMS liquidity growth on KASE. Thus, since May 1, 2008 while calculation of KASE index will be applied the parameters of the next shares: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Symbol Brief Free float, Stake, of share name of the issuer NIN m. USD % -- -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ------ 1 BTAS BTA Bank JSC KZ1C34920013 1,095.9 15.0 2 CCBN Bank CenterCredit JSC KZ1C36280010 677.6 9.3 3 GB_KZMS KAZAKHMYS PLC GB00B0HZPV38 1,095.9 15.0 4 HSBK Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC KZ1C33870011 1,095.9 15.0 5 KKGB Kazkommertsbank JSC KZ1C00400016 1,095.9 15.0 6 KKGBp Kazkommertsbank JSC KZ1P00400815 185.1 2.5 7 KZTK Kazakhtelecom JSC KZ1C12280417 661.7 9.1 8 KZTKp Kazakhtelecom JSC KZ1P12280412 57.1 0.8 9 RDGZ Exploration Production KazMunayGas JSC KZ1C51460018 1,095.9 15.0 10 TEBN Daughter organization of joint stock company Bank TuranAlem Temirbank JSC KZ1C00260014 220.5 3.0 11 TEBNp Daughter organization of joint stock company Bank TuranAlem Temirbank JSC KZ1P00260418 24.6 0.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Free float indicator, published in the table, was received as the product of amount of shares, being in the free float as of April 1, 2008, price of the last deal, registered on KASE on April 14, 2008 and coefficient, limiting the stake of influence of each shares' title to the value of index (the "Stake" indicator in the table). After the decision of Risk committee takes affect, that is as of beginning of May 1, 2008, the free float indicator in money expression will be different, because the limiting coefficients will be corrected in accordance with the current prices for shares. [2008-04-15]